Wendy Mass

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Livingston, The United States

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Wendy Mass is the author of six novels for young people, including A Mango-Shaped Space (which was awarded the Schneider Family Book Award by the American Library Association), Leap Day, the Twice Upon a Time fairy tale series, and Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, which earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly magazine. Her most recent book is Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall. Wendy wrote the storyline for an episode of the television show Monk, entitled "Mr. Monk Goes to the Theatre," which aired during the show's second season. She tells people her hobbies are hiking and photography, but really they're collecting candy bar wrappers and searching for buried treasure with her metal detector. Wendy lives with her family in ...more

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avg rating: 4.12 | 499 reviews | 1643 ratings | 24 distinct works

	A Mango-Shaped Space (Paperback) by Wendy Mass avg rating 4.16 — 988 ratings — published 2003 4 editions	my rating:
	Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life (Hardcover) by Wendy Mass avg rating 4.22 — 670 ratings — published 2006 4 editions	my rating:
	Leap Day (Paperback) by Wendy Mass avg rating 3.88 — 195 ratings — published 2006 2 editions	my rating:
	Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall (Hardcover) by Wendy Mass avg rating 3.75 — 215 ratings — published 2007 2 editions	my rating:
	Twice Upon A Time #1: Rapunzel, the One With All The Hair (Twice Upon a Time) by Wendy Mass avg rating 3.95 — 120 ratings — published 2006 2 editions	my rating:
	Twice Upon a Time, No. 2: Sleeping Beauty, the One Who Took the Really Long Nap (Twice Upon a Time) by Wendy Mass avg rating 4.34 — 69 ratings — published 2006	my rating:
	Every Soul A Star (Hardcover) by Wendy Mass avg rating 4.20 — 120 ratings — published 2008	my rating:
	11 Birthdays (Hardcover) by Wendy Mass avg rating 4.00 — 10 ratings — published 2009	my rating:
	Children's Literature (Greenhaven Press Companion to Literary Movements and Genres) by Wendy Mass avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 2000	my rating:
	Teen Drug Abuse (Teen Issues) by Wendy Mass avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1998	my rating:

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"Do you ever think if poeple heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
"All the time.""
— Wendy Mass (Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life)

tags: always, dd, fink, flotsam, funny, humor, i, jeremy, jetsam, keys, lizzy, mass, right, think, true, wendy, what

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"Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange."
— Wendy Mass

tags: drama, humomr, touching

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"Mr. Oswald places the telescope on the desk in front of us. "This," he says proudly, "Is a Broadhurst. It was the most powerful telescope for backyard veiwing in its day."
"Which was when?" Lizzy asks.
"The nineteen thirties," he replies. "Isn't it a beauty? On a clear night, you could see the whole entire solar system with this one."
Unable to stop myself, I blurt out, "My very energetic mothe just served us nine pizzas."
Lizzy gawks at me likw I have two heads. "He;s lost it; he's finally lost it. I knew this day would come."
"Mr. Ozwald chuckles. "Jeremy has just given us a mnemonic device for remembering the order of the planets.""
— Wendy Mass (Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life)

tags: humor

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